Teraco, a Digital Realty company and leading provider of interconnection platforms and vendor-neutral colocation data centres, has completed a major expansion of its CT2 hyperscale facility in Cape Town, boosting the campus’ total critical IT load to 50 megawatts (MW). The expansion adds 32MW of new capacity across eight data halls built over three levels, positioning Teraco as a central hub for cloud computing, AI workloads, and enterprise applications across Africa.
Jan Hnizdo, CEO of Teraco, highlighted that the CT2 expansion underscores the company’s commitment to meeting the growing demand for large-scale, hyperscale infrastructure in Africa. The enhanced facility allows clients to scale on demand while benefiting from proven resilience, a broad interconnected ecosystem, and low-latency connectivity options. This makes Cape Town a pivotal gateway for continental and international digital traffic.
The CT2 facility is designed to support high-density computing and AI-driven applications, with liquid-to-liquid cooling for AI training clusters, inference nodes, and large data lakes. Through Platform Teraco, clients gain direct connectivity to major cloud provider on-ramps, seamless peering via the NAPAfrica internet exchange point (IXP), and access to multiple carriers and content providers, ensuring optimal performance and interconnectivity across the Cape Town campus.
Sustainability has been a key focus in the expansion. The CT2 facility features a zero-water, closed-loop cooling system that integrates free air cooling with AI-driven energy optimization, achieving industry-leading power usage effectiveness (PUE) while eliminating water usage. Teraco is also advancing its renewable energy strategy through a 120MW solar PV project, supplying clean energy to its data centres, including CT2, via energy wheeling and reinforcing Africa’s sustainable digital transformation.
The expansion has also contributed to local economic growth and skills development, generating hundreds of construction jobs and creating around 30 full-time positions. By combining scalable hyperscale infrastructure, advanced AI-ready capabilities, and sustainable energy solutions, Teraco continues to cement its leadership role in Africa’s rapidly evolving digital ecosystem.
